Chat Hoarding lets Mac users archive WhatsApp backups as searchable local files

Chat Hoarding is a Mac app that pulls WhatsApp backups out of iCloud and stores them locally in a browsable, searchable format. For anyone who has ever lost years of chat history to a phone swap or account migration, owning that archive offline is a meaningful safety net. It's a focused, single-purpose tool solving a real data-ownership gap that WhatsApp itself has no interest in filling.